Georg kalischer



UNITED STATES GEORG KALISOHER, OF FRANKFORT-ON-TIIE-MAIN, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO LEOPOLD OASSELLA & 00., OF SAME PLACE.

BLACK DYE AND PROCESS OF MAKING SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 610, 541, dated September 13, 1898.

Application filed January 3 1898.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Gnone KALISOHER, a citizen of Prussia, and a resident of Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Production of a Black Cotton Dyestuff, of which the following is a specification.

I have found that a new black dyestufi of excellent properties is obtained by heating oxydinitrodiphenylamin with sulfids of alkalies and sulfur in aqueous solution. The thus obtained dyestuff dyes cotton direct deep blue-black shades, which are fast to rubbing, to light, and absolutely fast to washing and milling. The product from which I start is obtained by allowing 1.3 dinitro 4 chlorbenzene to react on paraamidophenol in a manner that only the amido group is substituted. The formation of oxydinitrodiphenylamin takes place, for instance, very readily if the components are allowed to react upon each other in spirit solution in molecular proportion in presence of acetates.

In order to carry out my invention, I proceed, for instance, as follows: Fifteen parts, by weight, of oxydinitrodiphenylamin are gradually heated to about 140 centigrade, together with seventy-five parts, by Weight, of crystallized sulfid of sodium and thirty parts, by weight, of sulfur in presence of a little water. This temperature is maintained for several hours until the mass is almost completely dry. Then it is heated for a short time to about 160 centigrade in order to remove the last trace of water. The dyestufl is thus obtained direct in a soluble form and in a state ready for technical use. From its solutions it is precipitated by acids and can thus beisolated and obtained in a pure state.

Instead of using the dinitro compound,

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with sulfids and sulfur substantially as described.

2. The black coloring-matter derived from oxydinitrodiphenylamin and sulfur, which is a black mass, easily soluble in water with a blue-black color being precipitated from its solutions by acids and dyeing unmordanted cotton directly in an alkaline bath without the help of oxidizing agents a deep blue-back substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have sign ed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 18th day of December, 1897.

GEORG KALISCHER.

Witnesses:

J AOOB WERNER, R. BLANK. 

